Race Quotes

Slow but steady wins the race. (Aesop)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. View quote
H. G. Wells
The trouble with the rat race is that if you win you're still a rat. View quote
Lily Tomlin
People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. View quote
Amartya Sen
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. View quote
E. M. Forster
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift. (William Graham Sumner)
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. View quote
William Hazlitt
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race. View quote
Jack Kerouac
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State. View quote
O. Henry
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. View quote
Steve Jobs
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. View quote
Gough Whitlam
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. View quote
Abraham Maslow
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. (Orson Welles)
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. View quote
Michael Jackson
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. View quote
Booker T. Washington
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. View quote
Bertrand Russell
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. View quote
William Howard Taft